Months ago, I was having a conversation with my sister about overpopulation. I mentioned the limit China put on the number of kids a family could have. My sister was totally against the idea. The convo went like this:

Sister: That's not fair. The government can't control how many kids you have.
Me: But the world is overpopulated as it is. We're straining our resources.
Sister: We still should be able to have as many kids as we want.
Me: Everyone keeps thinking about themselves, individually. If 5,000 people think this way, we're going to have a problem. People wanna have more and more kids. It's either some of us or all of us.
Sister: If people can support their children, they should have as many as they want. I would have a 3rd child no matter what the government said.

I ended the convo because I felt it was a lost cost. They're so many people with my sister's mentality that they can't or don't care to see the bigger picture.

I honestly think setting a limit on the # of kids would benefit everyone. We're rapidly decreasing resources and space while increasing demand buy the truckloads.

This may come off as elitist or classist, but the poorer you are, the less amount of children you should be able to have. It makes no sense for someone on welfare or who's living paycheck to paycheck to have the number of kids rivaling a daycare. This would put less of a strain on government assistance and probably encourage those struggling to succeed.

I'd rather for this not to happen since it seems wrong, mega-drastic, and it puts WAY too much power into the government's hands, but when the people can't control themselves, who will?

That's a bit too intrusive. I see the benefits of it, but you really can't tell people how many children they should have. If people can't control themselves, it's not really up to the government to step in and do so. They are people too. It's like...."who the fuck are you?".

"The biggest man was once a baby at some point" Bob Marley

Besides, it seems to me that the biggest overpopulation problems are in the third world countries where there's no birth control available and every man has 10 wives and 20 or 30 children, that's not us who average 2.5 kids in the household. Though we see these families on TV like the Duggars with 20 kids or so, I personally have never known any family that had more than four spread out through the years, of which we're that variety also.

I think people should only have the kids they can afford but I have issues with government intrusion.

ITA with Cece.

CeCe wrote:

I think people should only have the kids they can afford but I have issues with government intrusion.